Ovation

As ovatio (Latin: ovare: " rejoice " ) denote the sources a kind of triumphal inferior to reward successful Roman generals of antiquity.

The honoree was the right of the purple toga ( toga purpurea) and a laurel wreath ( corona triumphalis ) denied that he had to deal with a myrtle wreath and a Magistratstoga with purple stripes ( toga praetexta ) content. In contrast to the triumphal procession is reported that the commander of the path, which is believed that it resembled that of a triumphant, not standing on a car, but laid back just sitting on a horse or on foot without his army. Instead of a bull, a sheep was sacrificed (Latin ovis, of which the term may be derived ).

The declaration of a ovatio is considered senatorisches law, it would probably last for Aulus Plautius exercised by 47.

In a figurative sense, an Ovation is a stormy to solemn homage.

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